Sorry for answering late, i hadn't internet .

@gouessej
Many thanks, cool, that reassures me .

@lithos
Thanks a lot for the test .
Yes, the current levels are actually really not clears, dued to my crappy designer talents ! I hope i'll get better, with a lot of work, ha ha !
In fact health packs are power-ups , and they work only if "cypher" weapon is selected (another confusing stuff, that's true, i have to change model...).
Currently being trapped into new matter makes you die actually . In fact i didn't want to make multi, but i'm about to change my idea .

While i'm here, i can give a few news : the editor progresses well (soon i'll be able to place boxes into levels, amazing no ? ).
Otherwise i still work on terrain generation. recently i felt on a terrific algo to dig pretty underground galleries (ridged multi-fractal noise, conceited no ?). moreover, i decided to add textures. After several failures with classical textures (uv correct computation, which demand the normal of all points, but geometry is only stocked on graphic card to gain memory...), i thought about 3D textures procedural generation. It's only the beginning, but here is the result with classical chessboard texture :



The goal is to allow the player to generate different types of random textures in the editor .

Thank you deathpat .

For the smoothing normals, yeah it would be fine but it's difficult in my case because the geometry is in numerous separate vbo/display lists and currently i can't know which triangles own a point... Difficult but NOT impossible ! I guess it may cost a few neurons, but i'll think about it .

Otherwise, i'm glad to share with you my evening progresses in texture generation  : soon numerous shapes will be available because i just succeeded to implement random perturbations of a repetitive shape. the result can currently look like this :



Ha ha, i found the secret of tileable textures !

Looks smooth, reminds me of a lava lamp. Look forward to updates

Hello, some few news ^^ :

sorry, there still isn't a new demo because this week i lost time again on the code... but it's for a right cause : i succeded at least to get smooth normals from terrains . (without shader nor GPU manipulation, nor more memory use, which wasn't so easy )
Graphically, that doesn't suit to all shapes, but combined to broken grounds it could give some kind of "liquid" aspect that can fit to the project :



Otherwise i abandonned the 3D textures for good old 2D ones because i found an efficient (and simple) way to map UV's on any terrains (but textures must have some features : tileable + symetric according to the diagonal, but procedurally it's not difficult to generate ).

Now i can go back to my new level to put a new demo online quickly ^^ .

Thank you (sorry for answering late)

For the shaders, i can't ! It's not a joke, i currently develop on a laptop that doesn't even support GLSL...
But you're right, it would be fine, and i'd love even to try some GPGPU for this project .
Arf, soon it's my birthday .

For the shoots, yes, i will add a new weapon which will do that (a machine gun) for the intensive shooting times .

Otherwise, still no new demo , i progress very slowly on some new level... I hope it'll be complete next week.

Wow, looks awesome! Although, I really liked your previous design with the randomized shapes. There are already so many voxel games, your other design was unique!

@opiop65
Thanks a lot !
Actually it's not the most innovative idea of the year , i consider it most as an ingredient we could use among others, maybe it would be fun to mix these different styles of scenery in same maps ...

@BurntPizza
Thanks !
Well, the cubes are stocked in a simple bytes array :

There's also a 2D array of vertical chunks that read this bytes array to build geometry and send it to chipset as VBOs.
Each chunk only stores 6 floats for frustum and its VBO id.
Is there a trap somewhere that i don't see ?

Thank you very much !!
Actually i didn't consider a n-dimensionnal array is an array of pointers on some other objects (didn't know, shame on me it's rather important !) .
I'll implement 1 dimension arrays quick !

Hey, i just uploaded the 1 dimension arrays version, it works fine now .
Actually, the memory now increases of about 300 MB at a 1024x1024 map instanciation,
Thanks again !

Hey, thanks !
Unfortunately this code seems to work only for power of 2 sizes and i have to support any size .
I guess i have no choice but a "regular" mapping :

But this code is actually pretty clever, i'll remember it, thank you !

This is really impressive! I like all the different variations on the terrain look, which style are you going to eventually stick with?

I just played your demo N_I_C_S, and it was great!!

I loved level 4 and 5 with the gun that messed with the terrain. As well as the gravity pads on the earlier levels. I did run into an exception it was throwing me though. It couldn't find the natives folder and I had to make a 'lwjgl' folder to put it in. Other then that it was smooth and fun to play. 


I'd love to see a level with that random terrain you have been messing with. Just set the player up in a room like that with the blow up gun and let them go to town.

The terrain generation is truly unique, really an awsome game man.